The house of representatives has urged international non-governmental organisations involved in addressing the humanitarian crisis in the north-east not to abandon the country.The lawmakers made the plea following the execution of Hauwa Liman, an aid worker with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).The Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), a faction of Boko Haram, killed Liman on Monday, [...]
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The federal government has condemned the execution of Hauwa Leman, an aid worker with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), by The Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), a faction of Boko Haram.Lai Mohammed, minister of information, said the government did “everything any responsible government should do” to save Leman and Saifura Ahmed, another aid worker that had [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed an executive order mandating Nigerian taxpayers to declare and pay tax on their offshore assets.Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, announced this in a statement on Wednesday.According to the statement, asset owners have a 12-month window grace to declare and pay tax on their assets, under the new executive order number eight, tagged Voluntary Offshore Assets Regularization [...]
The federal government has announced the approval for the issuance of a second tranche of N100 billion Sukuk bond.This was disclosed at a two-day training on Sukuk structurisation and management in Abuja.The training was organised by the Metropolitan Skills Ltd in collaboration with the ministry of finance, and Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation of the organisation of the [...]
The federal government has filed charges against Ike Ekweremadu, deputy senate president and Bassey Akpan, senator representing Akwa Ibom north-east district, for alleged failure to declare their assets.The suit against the lawmakers were filed before a federal high court in Abuja by the special presidential investigation panel for the recovery of public property.On Wednesday, Celsus Upong, the prosecution lawyer, had complained [...]
Rebecca Sharibu has appealed to the federal government to save Leah, her daughter who is still in Boko Haram captivityThe insurgents had threatened to kill Leah in October if their demands are not met.Leah was among the students kidnapped in February from Government Girls Secondary School, Dapchi, Yobe state.All the abducted girls were subsequently released, except five who reportedly died in detention, but [...]
Rebecca Sharibu has sued the federal government for failing to secure the release of Leah, her daughter.Leah Sharibu was among the 119 students of Government Girls Secondary School, Dapchi, Yobe state, abducted by Boko Haram in February.All the abducted girls were subsequently released, except five who reportedly died in detention.Leah was held back by the insurgent group for “refusing to renounce [...]
The federal government has reinstated Yushau Shuaib, a civil servant who was retired after he wrote a critical piece on Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former minister of finance, in 2013.Shuaib was chief information officer on grade level 14 at the ministry of information before he was forcefully retired.He had complained about the "lopsided appointments" in the economic sector.He subsequently sued Okonjo-Iweala, the [...]
The federal government has described labour's 14-day ultimatum as "a subtle blackmail" to stampede the tripartite committee on the new national minimum wage.Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, said this at a news conference on Thursday in Abuja.Ngige said it is not true that the federal government is trying to stall negotiations."The following facts speak in that direction, if [...]
Suspected robbers broke into the residence of the parents of Leah Sharibu, the only student of Government Girls Secondary School, Dapchi, Yobe state, still in Boko Haram custody.They reportedly invaded the parents’ residence on Monday and carted away the family’s belongings, including food stuff and a generator set.Sharibu is one of the 119 students abducted from the school by Boko [...]
Solomon Dalung, minister of youth and sports development, has asked the federal government to declare state of emergency in states experiencing incessant killings.Dalung said this is necessitated by the failure of the security agencies to end the attacks and bring the killers to book.Plateau, Zamfara, Benue and Taraba are among states where many lives have been lost in 2018 alone.Addressing [...]
The federal government has recognised the Amaju Pinnick-led executive as the authentic leadership of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).Laolu Akande, special assistant to Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo made the announcement via Twitter handle on Monday.The announcement comes shortly before the deadline given by FIFA for the resolution of the leadership tussle in the Nigerian football governing body.“The FG has already conveyed [...]
Abike Dabiri-Erewa, senior special assistant to the president on foreign affairs and diaspora, says 116 of the Nigerian migrants trapped in Libya slave camps would soon be repatriated.In statement by Abdur-Rahman Balogun, her media aide, Dabiri-Erewa said the federal government and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) have located the detention camps of the Nigerians and offered to bring those willing [...]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the federal government and the All Progressives Congress (APC) intend to obtain an interim court order to declare the Senate President seat vacant.Following the defection of Bukola Saraki from APC to PDP, the ruling party had called on him to step down as leader of the upper legislative chamber.In a statement, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP [...]
The Media Rights Agenda (MRA), a non-governmental, has sued the federal government over its alleged refusal to disclose the cost it incurred from Nigeria’s participation in the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.The MRA, in a statement on Thursday, accused the federal government of failing to disclose the lists of Nigerian footballers, coaches, supporters, government officials and their aides who [...]
The federal government has postponed the closure of the third mainland bridge for maintenance test from July 27 to August 24.Babatunde Fashola, minister of power, works and housing, disclosed this in a statement issued on Tuesday.The bridge, earlier scheduled to be closed from July 27 to July 30, will now be shut to vehicular movement from August 24 to August [...]
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